With the iPhone 3G finally hitting store shelves, we though it’d be nice to provide you with some good reads regarding its release. Engadget’s coverage of the launch Yahoo News: Eager buyers line up for iPhone 3G Crunch Gear’s coverage of the launch BBC: Apple’s 3G iPhone reaches stores Fortune: Apple 2.0 Live! T3: 3G iPhone mania arrives Slash Phone: ...
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Replacing Plants With Solar Plants
When you get to the point where you’ve fucked with the Earth so much that normal plants just won’t cut it, you need alternatives. That’s why the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Mitsubishi and Tokki Corp. have developed a prototype solar cell module that resembles a living plant. With organic thin-film solar cells, the module is ...
Read More »Port-O-Rotary Phone Takes A SIM For The Team
� While there have been attempts to bring the rotary phone into the modern age, and even attempts at retaining the rotary dial design as fashionable, none has been successful at making a rebirth of the device which used to be the norm. The Port-O-Rotary adds in SIM card capability, allowing you to bring your clunky rotary phone on the ...
Read More »Korea Launches First Preventive Mobile Phone Addict Program
A civic group called School Beautiful Movement, together with the Korea Agency for Digital Opportunity and Promotion and SK Telecom has launched a program to teach the young proper cellphone use, in preparedness of protecting them from the harsh recesses of mobile addiction. Twelve Korean elementary, middle and high schools were selected for the pilot program and for the next ...
Read More »Fight with your phones. Nobody gets hurt.
[ev type=”youtube” data=”mfPoCOo06KI”][/ev] Some Japanese dude has decided to play sword with phones, and he’s using the Mitsubishi D903iTV DMB one-button push slider to attack the Panasonic P902i, which also has a one-button push spring mechanism for the folder (Neither of them is cheap). In the GSM world, we can only throw Nokia N95 at people. —Sam Chan
Read More »Toshiba fans add HSDPA, DMB, 3.2MP camera, MS Office support to iPhone
We in Asia have to wait till 2007 for the iPhone to arrive, the recent report from FCC has shattered dreams of millions since the widgets were to be substituted by Cingular’s monopolistic services for the mean time, the sole support for 850 and 1900Mhz would make parallel import (or roaming) to most parts of the world impossible. The Japanese ...
Read More »Toshiba shows off unattractive fuel-cell powered A2DP headphones
Prototypes are meant to be attractive, right? They’re supposed attract buyers to look into the company’s new technology. Toshiba might has just done the opposite with their fuel-cell technology. (fuel, being alcohol) We’ve seen fuel-cell driven notebooks and even Gigabeat MP3 players, but by far the most unattractive would be this: the A2DP headphones. Ok, fine, probably it doesn’t really ...
Read More »Asus Z801: It’s black, it’s leather and it shines
There are a couple of companies with great potentials that never made it to become the big players in the mobile phone industry. Asus is one of them. Just take a look at the Z801, their newest triband GSM phone. Real leather, stainless steel, industrially-strengthened glossy surface are all used to construct this baby. I am sure it will sell, ...
Read More »BlackBerry Pearl comes to Cingular
The BlackBerry Pearl has redefined our thoughts of what eye candy should be. It’s slim design combined with the large beautiful screen cause one to think “iPod who?” Fortunately for Cingular customers, the BlackBerry Pearl has officially been released and is now available for anyone to buy. The Pearl is currently listed at $200 with a 2 year contract or ...
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